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Remember that development "bleeding edge" stuff does not always work 100% perfectly. In this case, I wonder if you've been bitten by differences between Subversion and Mercurial. Keywords are "native" in Subversion, and are an extension in Mercurial. I think Vedran is still experimenting a bit with this!

Joseph is right. You need properly configured KeywordExtension for this to work. I planned to put this on wiki this weekend (and when I do, I will close this bug), but since you asked:
Put this into .hg/hgrc of the beamer repository (you can even put it in .hgrc, but it's not recommended):

I'm having the same problem as ignasi, with all the three versions 3.06,3.07,tip.
I don't understand the instructions from Vedran's message. Could you please explain in more detail? For example, what is .hg/hgrc ?

Hello, having exact same problem. I'm *not* pulling this with a VC system though, I just download the zip file of 3.07 straight from this site. Therefore, I have no .hg directory to make these modifications. I would like 3.07 since beamerposter package is not working with 3.10.

Does CTAN still have their version of 3.07 anywhere, I can't seem to find it, but think that would solve my issue.

I got hit by this bug with the 3.10 zip download and the fix didn't work (probably 'cos there is no hg repo included, just creating the file is not good enough) but it worked fine when downloading tip with hg clone. So, try that if you have problems with the zips.

Adding to comment #5 from ignasi: You have to install the "mecurial" package to be able to use a "hg" command (for Linux):

apt-get install mercurial

or

yum --enablerepo=* install mercurial

or any other method that your distro uses

With that you can install the beamer repo with "hg clone https://bitbucket.org/rivanvx/beamer", then in subdir beamer you have a .hg dir and a .hg/hgrc file. After that you can use the tips mentioned in comment #2 from Vedran.

Here is the head of the base/beamer.cls file coming from the released package beamer-3.10.tar.bz2 .
As you notice, \ProvidesClassRCS has not a generic path. It can't work well out of the box. Is it possible to have a clean package to download ? I stay on latex-beamer-3.07 because of that ! Thanks...

% Copyright 2003--2007 by Till Tantau
% Copyright 2010 by Vedran Mileti\'c
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% This file may be distributed and/or modified
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% 1. under the LaTeX Project Public License and/or
% 2. under the GNU Public License.
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% See the file doc/licenses/LICENSE for more details.

This problem has not been solved! I have downloaded version 3.10 today and installed according to the manual instructions and one what #2 says in the .hg files but it still gives the same error! Can you fix this please or tell us exactly what we should do? Thanks...